I have learned that failure is a part of success; it's part of the learning curve. Sometimes you have to walk that road to achieve big things.

I try to learn the most I can from every mistake.

It took a lot of time for me to understand that I'm not competing against anybody but myself.

My whole life I have been in a hurry, like running fast after a goal, and now I realize it's nice to sometimes slow down a little bit and enjoy the ride.

I think sometimes your worst enemy is inside your head. All your insecurities, your ego, your fears, your expectations.

It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you.

The most important thing for me to succeed in is day by day becoming a better and more prepared person.

Nothing was ever normal again.Many lives change like that -- all of a sudden, and forever.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of sausage.

art is the pulse of a nation.

My view of Christianity is that the hallmark of being a Christian is to reach out to people who have been left behind. So I think there was a religious aspect to my decision to support civil unions.

Hallows, not Horcruxes.

We must stop spending money that we just don't have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth.

Have courage. It clears the way for things that need to be.

Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.